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    Another alternative to Oracle

    Have a look at fyracle

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 14 June 2005

    Holiday in Amsterdam

    Notes on our time in Amsterdam

    Comments (0) . Sunday, 12 June 2005

    Nulls again

    Nulls have been the bane of my life as a database programmer and they got me again today. I was getting a constraint violation on an optional foreign key from MySQL.My PHP data entry system was returning the empty string when the user hadn't entered

    Comments (0) . Sunday, 12 June 2005

    Standing on the shoulders of giants: Part 1

    Part one of an article about how I managed to create a dynamic data entry system using PHP

    Comments (3) . Friday, 10 June 2005

    Outsourcing

    I response to this.I believe the gains from outsourcing are dubious at best.From personal and anecdotal experience I believe that the gains in 2-5 years when your business changes (and it will, particularly in legislation-rich areas like financial se

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 8 June 2005